My (our) skating rink is frozen! Every year, my dad makes a skating rink in our backyard. And this year, due to the cold weather we've been having, it's ready early! It's still pretty bumpy, however. It is pretty big(30'x40'), but next year it'll be bigger (we're getting our backyard leveled). Skating skating SKATING! We'll skate on New Year's and skate and skate and skate!!!
As you can tell, I'm pretty happy about this!!!!
~Kate
Posted by Theca (Member # 1629) on :
Ooooh, my mom's dad used to do that every year for her and her brothers back when they were growing up. She talks all the time about how wonderful it was. Have fun!
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
When I was a kid, living on Lake Erie, the town I lived in had tennis courts right next to the library. In the winter, they put up 2 x 4s around the all the tennis courts (I think there were three or four of them) and fill it with water. It would freeze and we'd go skating. Such fun!
Posted by Just another Dharma bum (Member # 6879) on :
I have a pond in front of my house, it's pretty big, we usually have hockey tournaments when it freezes. Right now it's about 18 degrees, but the pond hasn't been frozen for long as just a few days it ago it was 40 degrees out, and two days before that it was 0! I hope January brings steady cold weather, I miss skating!
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Where I lived in northern Alberta when growing up, we had tennis courts that doubled as skating rinks in the winter. Or, more likely, skating rinks that doubled as tennis courts in the summer. Either way.
Given that it's Canada, they were everywhere, so skating was always available.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Yewah, they always did that for us in MI too, even though we lived near Detroit, not up really far. My family has a house near Traverse City...now THAT is hockey country!
Kwea
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Posted by Desdemona (Member # 7100) on :
There are tennis courts/skating rinks around here in Toronto, but nothing is comparable to being able to come home, lace up your skates, grab your stick and get out on the ice, then come off the rink directly into your house to the hot chocolate!
(and I know that everybody hates us Torontonians, but we're really not that bad...)
Posted by Cor (Member # 4295) on :
The pond near my parents' house in New Jersey was my first...and last experience in ice skating. I can roller skate, even dance some on them, but balancing on that thin little blade is quite beyond me. And now I live in FLORIDA! And sometimes we go tanning on Christmas Day! HAHAHAHAH!
Still, I do envy those of you with grace on skates!
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